Chapter 2

If I was a human the woods would have been frightening and lonely, but the darkness was nice to me. I walked for what felt like miles to a young child until I found a small crack in a tree where I could huddle underneath away from the rain that fell steadily on the Earth. The first night I fell asleep hungry and cold.

When morning came, I woke with a start from the animals moving around. My stomach growled telling me I needed to eat and soon if I wanted to survive. A young rabbit hopped in front of the hole I was hiding in. With the speed only a Dragonborn has I jumped on the rabbit, killing it. I pushed a pile of leaves over it so other animals couldn't get to it, then I went in search of some firewood. I prayed to my parents in thanks that they took the time to teach me how breath fire.

I cooked the rabbit with some herbs I had found when I ventured away from my tree. After I finished my small breakfast I journeyed away from the fire to look for strong logs that I could make a shelter out of. I found a pile of dead logs not to far away from the spot I was camping at, I then tied the logs together with a vine that was growing up a near by tree. When I was finished I went looking for a river, it was noon when I found one. It was crystal clear and sparkled in the sunlight. Up the hill a little there was a small pond. I took all my clothes off and sat down a rock in the deeper part. I let the fish swim around me without bothering them. In front of me a mermaid popped her head above the water to look at me.

"Are you here to hurt me?" She asked cautiously.

"Why would I do that?"

"People like to hunt my kind down and sell us for money."

"I'm not going to do that, how about we be friends."

"I have never had a friends before." She said swimming slowly up to me.

"Neither have I, oh my name is Nala."

"My name is Ren."

"That's pretty, so how old are you?"

"In human years I'm 30 in my years I'm 125, how about you?"

"I'm three. So how did you come to be in this small pond?"

"You ask a lot of question don't you? And there is a stream deeper under water that used to feed into the ocean that's 10 miles that direction. I used to swim up here sometimes to get a feel for the world other than the ocean, one day when I came the tunnel collapsed behind me and I can't get back. I have been here for a few months now. Why are you this far into the woods?" Ren said pointing to the West.

"My parents are dead and I have nowhere else to go. So I went into the woods, and I'm not living to far from here. I now live in a tree. Well, I should really get back so I can try and find something to eat for dinner. I promise to come tomorrow though." I said putting my clothes back on.

"Hold on." She said disappearing under the water. "Here take these for your dinner. They should be just fine." She said handing me three huge fish.

"Oh, thank you. See ya." I said taking the fish and skipping down the path waving behind.

When I got back to my campsite I lit another fire and cooked the fish to awesomeness. After I was done eating I crawled into my make shift house and feel asleep knowing tomorrow I had a friends to go visit.